Health authorities in the state have said the long distance from the house of a person suffering from Japanese Encephalitis (JE) to a medical centre is one of the factors behind the high fatalities, as the cumbersome journey often complicates a patie

With the assembly elections set to coincide with the festive season, when many migrants return to celebrate Durga Puja, Diwali and Chhath, the Bihari diaspora is being seen as a crucial "swing" factor in the poll outcome.

The Federation of University Service Teachers’ Associations of Bihar (Fustab) has welcomed the state government decision to restrain the pay verification cell of education department from altering the pay of college and university teachers during ver

Health authorities in the state have said the long distance from the house of a person suffering from Japanese Encephalitis (JE) to a medical centre is one of the factors behind the high fatalities, as the cumbersome journey often complicates a patie

With the assembly elections set to coincide with the festive season, when many migrants return to celebrate Durga Puja, Diwali and Chhath, the Bihari diaspora is being seen as a crucial "swing" factor in the poll outcome.

The Federation of University Service Teachers’ Associations of Bihar (Fustab) has welcomed the state government decision to restrain the pay verification cell of education department from altering the pay of college and university teachers during ver

Health authorities in the state have said the long distance from the house of a person suffering from Japanese Encephalitis (JE) to a medical centre is one of the factors behind the high fatalities, as the cumbersome journey often complicates a patie

In just over a week, Anish R's personality has undergone a sea change - from the timid, diffident and homesick youth who struggled to put the differences with his three roommates aside to the camper who can't bear the thought of parting from those sa

With the assembly elections set to coincide with the festive season, when many migrants return to celebrate Durga Puja, Diwali and Chhath, the Bihari diaspora is being seen as a crucial "swing" factor in the poll outcome.

Health authorities in the state have said the long distance from the house of a person suffering from Japanese Encephalitis (JE) to a medical centre is one of the factors behind the high fatalities, as the cumbersome journey often complicates a patie

With the assembly elections set to coincide with the festive season, when many migrants return to celebrate Durga Puja, Diwali and Chhath, the Bihari diaspora is being seen as a crucial "swing" factor in the poll outcome.

The Federation of University Service Teachers’ Associations of Bihar (Fustab) has welcomed the state government decision to restrain the pay verification cell of education department from altering the pay of college and university teachers during ver

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The Puducherry government has prepared a state action plan on climate change. The project costs Rs 463 crore and the government proposes to seek funds from the World Bank. The government also proposes a host of public private partnership (PPP) projects at a cost of over Rs 10,000 crore in the areas of information technology, tourism, local administration, electricity, port and health.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi calls for a review of curricula in architecture and civil engineering colleges to include energy efficient design in a big way.

PM Narendra Modi calls for a paradigm shift in global attitudes towards climate change, from "carbon credit", towards "green credit." Chairing a meeting of his Council on Climate Change, he says "instead of focusing on emissions and cuts alone, focus should shift on what we have done for clean energy generation, energy conservation and energy efficiency, and what more can be done in these areas".

First meeting of the reconstituted Prime Minister Council on Climate Change begins at PM residence-cum-office at 7, Race Course Road.

Environment minister Prakash Javadekar says India is open to ideas which may lead to cutting carbon emissions and reducing ozone depletion. Our earnest appeal to the developed world is to "walk the talk", he adds ahead of the UN Climate Summit.

India will pitch for capitalisation of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) at the UN Climate Summit in New York on September 23.

National Museum of Natural History and ministry of environment, forests and climate change will observe September 16 as " International Day for the Preservation of Ozone Layer ".

India will be represented by environment minister Prakash Javadekar in the UN Climate Summit which is to be organized in New York on September 23 to give a political momentum to the climate deal negotiations ahead of the Peru talks.

WMO's Greenhouse Gas Bulletin: On the global scale, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere reached 396.0 parts per million in 2013. The atmospheric increase of CO2 from 2012 to 2013 was 2.9 parts per million, which is the largest annual increase for the period 1984-2013.

The observations from WMO's Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) network shows that CO2 levels increased more between 2012 and 2013 than during any other year since 1984. Preliminary data indicates that this was possibly related to reduced CO2 uptake by the earth's biosphere in addition to the steadily increasing CO2 emissions.

WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin: In 2013, concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere was 142% of the pre-industrial era (1750), and of methane and nitrous oxide 253% and 121% respectively.

WMO's Greenhouse Gas Bulletin shows that between 1990 and 2013 there was a 34% increase in radiative forcing - the warming effect on our climate - because of long-lived greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide.

World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) says the climate-damaging greenhouse gases in the atmosphere had reached a new record high in 2013, propelled by a surge in levels of carbon dioxide.

First Indo-US joint working group meeting on climate change will take place here this evening. India will be represented by environment minister Prakash Javadekar whereas Todd Stern , United States Special Envoy for Climate Change, will lead the American side.

UK Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change, Edward Davey, meets Indian environment minister Prakash Javadekar where the latter suggests that the money from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) can be used to purchase Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) of climate friendly technologies and provide it to developing countries free of cost.